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HOW TO READ ?
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swissprof
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HOW TO READ ?
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Dear colleagues, I would like to check if it is correct how I read the following numbers! 0.48 km2 5.56 km2 Thanks in advance for your help Nicole |
15 Nov 2011
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Annaniz
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zero point forty eight square kilometers and five point fifty six square kilometers. |
15 Nov 2011
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yanogator
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Also, it �s not necessary to write or read the zero before the decimal point, so you could say "point four eight" rather than "zero point four eight".
That brings up another way of reading them.
Point forty-eight
or Point four eight
Both are correct. |
15 Nov 2011
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piet88
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In British English at least it is NOT correct to read 0.48 as "point forty eight". The reason for this is that if you read 0.5 as "point five" and 0.48 as "point forty eight", it sounds like 0.48 is bigger, which of course it �s not.
In British English you read each number after the decimal point, so 0.375 is nought point three seven five, NOT nought point three hundred and seventy five.
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16 Nov 2011
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